Custom Ecommerce Website Development, Built to Sell
A custom Laravel storefront — not a rented theme on someone else's platform. Real-time inventory, Stripe or PayPal checkout, and order dashboards built around how you actually sell. Fixed price, no monthly platform cut, and the code is yours the day it ships.
The 3-year math on a template stack
A page-builder store looks like the lower-cost path on day one. Run the numbers past year one and the math flips — plan fees, required apps, and a processing cut you don't fully control add up, and you still don't own what you built.
| Over 3 years | Template stack | Commerce build |
|---|---|---|
| Build / setup cost | Low or $0 upfront — the real cost shows up later | $6,500 one-time, fixed and quoted upfront |
| Plan + required apps | $250–$600/mo once you add reviews, upsells, SEO, and email apps most stores need | $0 — those features are built in, not rented separately |
| Payment processing | Standard card rates, plus an extra cut if you skip the platform's own gateway | Standard Stripe/PayPal rates only — no platform markup on top |
| Changing how checkout works | Capped by the platform's rules — some changes aren't possible below its Enterprise tier | Whatever the business needs — it's your code |
| 3-year running cost | $9,000–$21,600 in fees alone, before any dev work | $6,500 once, or about $19,100 fully loaded with a Growth care plan every month |
| What you own at the end | A product export. The store itself stays on their platform. | 100% of the code and content — move it to any host, any time |
Outgrowing a single storefront into a marketplace, wholesale portal, or multi-brand operation? That's a Custom Platform build, not a bigger Commerce package — the business logic underneath is different, not just the page count.
Everything a real online store needs
Six core capabilities every Commerce build ships with. Nothing here is an upsell you discover later.
Catalog and inventory that's actually accurate
Real-time stock per SKU and per variant, tied to what's really on the shelf — not a spreadsheet someone updates on Fridays.
Stripe or PayPal checkout
Hosted card fields, 3-D Secure ready, one-page or multi-step — built around how your customers actually buy, not a generic template flow.
Order and customer dashboards
An admin view for every order, product, and customer, plus a self-service account and order-history page for shoppers.
Coupons, shipping, and tax handled right
Percentage or fixed-value codes, flat or rate-based shipping rules, and tax calculated per jurisdiction — configured at launch, not patched in later.
Email automation that fires on its own
Order confirmations, shipping updates, and abandoned-cart nudges go out automatically from day one — no manual follow-up required.
Laravel code, not a rented theme
Every screen is backend code we wrote and you own. Want checkout to work differently next year? We change the code — no app-store workaround.
Speed is a sales feature, not a vanity metric
A storefront that takes four seconds to paint its hero image has already lost part of your mobile traffic before anyone sees a product. Every Commerce build we ship targets a Largest Contentful Paint around 0.7 seconds on a real mid-tier connection — no bloated theme JavaScript, no half-dozen render-blocking app scripts fighting each other for the main thread.
Bango Power, one of our B2B storefronts, scores 98 on Google Lighthouse's performance audit with a full product catalog and category filtering running — pull that number yourself, it isn't a marketing claim. Checkout pages that load fast convert more of the traffic you already paid to acquire. Slow ones just burn ad spend on carts that never finish.
Checkout is where trust dies
Most cart abandonment isn't really about price — it's the half-second a shopper hesitates because the payment page looks off. Every Commerce build routes card entry through Stripe or PayPal's hosted fields, so raw card numbers never touch our servers or yours. That keeps your PCI compliance scope at the simplest tier (SAQ A) instead of the audit-heavy category stores get stuck with when they roll their own payment form.
Forced HTTPS, sanitized inputs on every form, rate-limited admin logins, and no plaintext card data stored anywhere — that's the baseline on every store we ship, not an upsell. Handling customer data at real scale — a marketplace with vendor payouts, a B2B portal with account-level pricing — the Custom Platform tier adds a full security audit before launch. See the Laravel Security Audit page for what that covers.
Two stores we've actually shipped
Live links, not screenshots — click through and look for yourself.
Variant selection that can't oversell
A One BD carries a full retail catalog where most products have multiple sizes, colors, and material options. We built a client-side variant-matching engine that checks live stock per combination — pick a color, the size list updates instantly, and the buy button stays locked until the exact combination selected is actually in stock.
Visit aonebd.com mensart.com.bd2.1× longer sessions after the rebuild
Mensart's previous store ran on a stock Shopify theme. We rebuilt it as a custom storefront with editorial product photography and a considered checkout flow. Average session time went from 1:48 to 3:52 in the first month after launch — visitors browsing instead of bouncing.
Visit mensart.com.bdMore builds on the work page →
What's included, always
Every website we build ships with the same non-negotiable baseline — there's no stripped-down version missing SSL or analytics. This is the floor every package starts from, not an upsell.
- Mobile-responsive on every device
- Core Web Vitals performance tuning
- On-page SEO, schema markup + Search Console setup
- SSL certificate (HTTPS) on every site
- Cross-browser testing
- Analytics setup (GA4 + conversion tracking)
- Spam-protected forms
- 100% code and content ownership — no lock-in, ever
- Accessibility-aware, WCAG-informed build
- Post-launch support window included
Two ways to build it
Commerce covers a standalone store. If the business is really a marketplace, wholesale portal, or something with account-based logic underneath the storefront, Custom Platform is the right scope.
Commerce
A custom Laravel storefront — not a page builder, not WordPress.
- Domain
- Bring your own domain — DNS setup included
- Hosting
- Hosting/infra scoped to your traffic and catalog size
- Delivery
- 3–6 weeks
- Custom Laravel storefront, catalog + inventory
- Cart + checkout via Stripe or PayPal
- Customer + order management dashboards
- Coupons, shipping rules + tax handling
- 3 rounds of revisions
Custom Platform
Bespoke multi-role platforms — marketplaces, SaaS, web apps.
- Domain
- Bring your own domain — DNS setup included
- Hosting
- Hosting/infra architecture scoped to your platform
- Delivery
- 10–16 weeks
- Bespoke Laravel platform, multi-role architecture
- Hardened authentication + custom business logic
- API integrations + admin/reporting dashboards
- Security audit included
- Milestone-gated delivery
Not sure which fits? Request a custom quote and we'll recommend the right one.
E-commerce — your questions
Migration, PCI, gateways, and when a store actually needs to be a platform instead.
Can you migrate my existing store without losing my search rankings?
Do I need to worry about PCI compliance if you build my checkout?
Why build on Laravel instead of Shopify or WooCommerce?
What if my store outgrows the Commerce package?
Which payment gateways can you integrate?
How long does a Commerce build take, and what do I need to provide?
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Have a store to build or migrate?
Tell us what you're selling and how you sell it today. You'll get a scoped, fixed-price quote within 2 business days — no discovery call required to get started.